The Music of the Primes : Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters

Marcus du Sautoy

480 pages, Hardcover

ISBN: 1841155799

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Language: English

Publish: January 1, 2003

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A history of mathematics from the cutting-edge of present-day research, this book tells the story of the most idiosyncratic and most fundamental numbers in pure mathematics, the primes. When counting, primes (numbers only divisible by one and themselves) appear without any reason or rhythm. To a non-mathematician this may s

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